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All about Almodouvar: A Passion for Cinema

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Description:One of world cinemaOCOs most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, andOCoabove allOCoentertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst on the international film scene in the early 1980s. "All about Almodvar" offers new perspectives on the filmmakerOCOs artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of his oeuvre and in-depth analyses of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of subjects: AlmodvarOCOs nuanced use of television and music in his films; his reworkings of traditional film genres such as comedy, horror, and film noir; his penchant for melodrama and its relationship to melancholy, violence, and coincidence; his intricate questioning of sexual and national identities; and his increasingly sophisticated inquiries into visuality and its limits.a Closing with AlmodvarOCOs own diary account of the making of Volver and featuring never-before-seen photographs from El Deseo production studio, "All about Almodvar "both reflects and illuminates its subjectOCOs dazzling eclecticism. Contributors: Mark Allinson, U of Leicester; Pedro Almodvar; Isolina Ballesteros, Baruch College; Leo Bersani, UC Berkeley; Marvin DOCOLugo, Clark U; Ulysse Dutoit, UC Berkeley; Peter William Evans, Queen Mary U of London; V ctor Fuentes, UC Santa Barbara; Marsha Kinder, USC; Steven Marsh, U of Illinois, Chicago; Andy Medhurst, U of Sussex; Ignacio Olivia, Universidad CastillaOCoLa Mancha, Cuenca; Paul Julian Smith, U of Cambridge; Kathleen M. Vernon, SUNY Stony Brook; Linda Williams, UC Berkeley; Francisco A. Zuriin, U Carlos III, Madrid.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All about Almodouvar: A Passion for Cinema. To get started finding All about Almodouvar: A Passion for Cinema, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 505

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0816667888

Description: One of world cinemaOCOs most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, andOCoabove allOCoentertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst on the international film scene in the early 1980s. "All about Almodvar" offers new perspectives on the filmmakerOCOs artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of his oeuvre and in-depth analyses of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of subjects: AlmodvarOCOs nuanced use of television and music in his films; his reworkings of traditional film genres such as comedy, horror, and film noir; his penchant for melodrama and its relationship to melancholy, violence, and coincidence; his intricate questioning of sexual and national identities; and his increasingly sophisticated inquiries into visuality and its limits.a Closing with AlmodvarOCOs own diary account of the making of Volver and featuring never-before-seen photographs from El Deseo production studio, "All about Almodvar "both reflects and illuminates its subjectOCOs dazzling eclecticism. Contributors: Mark Allinson, U of Leicester; Pedro Almodvar; Isolina Ballesteros, Baruch College; Leo Bersani, UC Berkeley; Marvin DOCOLugo, Clark U; Ulysse Dutoit, UC Berkeley; Peter William Evans, Queen Mary U of London; V ctor Fuentes, UC Santa Barbara; Marsha Kinder, USC; Steven Marsh, U of Illinois, Chicago; Andy Medhurst, U of Sussex; Ignacio Olivia, Universidad CastillaOCoLa Mancha, Cuenca; Paul Julian Smith, U of Cambridge; Kathleen M. Vernon, SUNY Stony Brook; Linda Williams, UC Berkeley; Francisco A. Zuriin, U Carlos III, Madrid.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All about Almodouvar: A Passion for Cinema. To get started finding All about Almodouvar: A Passion for Cinema, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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